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Wife Swap

Season 1 2004 - 2005
TV-PG

  • 2004-09-27T02:00:00Z on ABC
  • 45m
  • 15h 11m (21 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Reality
Have you ever wondered whether the grass is greener on the other side of the fence? Two wives discover that it often isn't when they hand over the keys to their homes and literally switch families ” but not bedrooms ” for two weeks on the new reality show Wife Swap, already a critically-acclaimed smash hit in its third season in the U.K. Wife Swap is not a competition or a contest. It is a reality show unlike any other, where the battlegrounds are the kitchens and living rooms, child-rearing is a subject of intense and heated debate, and the outcome isn't a cash prize, but a couple's opportunity to re-discover why they love each other and decided to marry in the first place. In the first week of the swap, the wives move in with their new family and adopt their very different lifestyle. They agree to follow a manual written by the departing wife that sets out the rules of their new household how they parent, shop, do the house work, manage their budgets and their social lif

21 episodes

Series Premiere

2004-09-27T02:00:00Z

1x01 Pitts/Policchio

Series Premiere

1x01 Pitts/Policchio

  • 2004-09-27T02:00:00Z41m

On the premiere episode, a disorganized, animal loving mother with 25 pets trades places and families with an obsessively tidy mother who loves to-do lists and detests animals.

2004-09-30T02:00:00Z

1x02 Spolansky/Bradley

1x02 Spolansky/Bradley

  • 2004-09-30T02:00:00Z40m

A 36-year-old multimillionaire heiress and mother of three from New York swaps lives with a 45-year-old wife and mother of two from rural New Jersey.
Joe's Scene-By-Scene Review for this episode is complete! To read it, click the RECAP button below.

2004-10-07T02:00:00Z

1x03 Smoak/Beaver

1x03 Smoak/Beaver

  • 2004-10-07T02:00:00Z40m

A gun-toting conservative who hasn't shared a bed with her husband in 10 years trades places with an anti-NRA animal rights activist with no job and less control over her daughter. By the end of week two, one of their husbands is in tears, while the other is tearing his hair out over his liberal new houseguest.
Due to personal reasons, Joe's Scene-By-Scene Review could not be written for this episode. I apologize for any inconvenience.

2004-10-21T02:00:00Z

1x04 Donahoe/Baker

1x04 Donahoe/Baker

  • 2004-10-21T02:00:00Z40m

with the day too thing...it was actyaully 4.45 not 5.45 (yes i know im getting picky

2004-10-28T02:00:00Z

1x05 Ghani/Stallone

1x05 Ghani/Stallone

  • 2004-10-28T02:00:00Z40m

A free-spirited vegetarian with a messy streak leaves L.A to sample the life of a straight-laced stay-at-home Mom in New Jersey who had a rough time dealing with her counterpart's New Agey ways. However, after a week passes, it's their kids who are having trouble, as one group gets a rude awakening about their video-game habits.

2004-11-04T03:00:00Z

1x06 Smith/Weiner

1x06 Smith/Weiner

  • 2004-11-04T03:00:00Z40m

A fitness-minded type-A mom ditches California for the life of an emotional, overweight housewife in Florida. The switch shakes things up for both women, but even more so for the one who can't get used to a home devoid of fast food and friendly attitudes.

2004-11-11T03:00:00Z

1x07 Reimers/Bittner

1x07 Reimers/Bittner

  • 2004-11-11T03:00:00Z40m

A strict, vegetarian, ex-Navy wife who disciplines her children swaps lives with a junk food-eating, living-large mother who allows her two headstrong teens free rein.

2004-11-18T03:00:00Z

1x08 Harris/Van Noy

1x08 Harris/Van Noy

  • 2004-11-18T03:00:00Z40m

This week in ""Harris/Van Noy,"" an Oklahoma mother of three who agrees with her husband's edict that an obedient wife belongs in the kitchen, swaps lives with an unorthodox, working mother from Texas who believes her stay-at-home husband should rule the kitchen.

1x09 Paiss/Davis (Husband Swap)

  • 2004-12-02T03:00:00Z40m

The Paiss & Davis Families trade husbands.

2004-12-09T03:00:00Z

1x10 Ray/Aguirre

1x10 Ray/Aguirre

  • 2004-12-09T03:00:00Z40m

A tattooed, punk rock mom swaps lives with a Southern Baptist, traditional mother.

2004-12-16T03:00:00Z

1x11 Elliott/Burkhalter

1x11 Elliott/Burkhalter

  • 2004-12-16T03:00:00Z1h

A Mississippi stay-home mother who gets gets walked all over by her by her children swaps places with a strict mother from Maryland who lays down the law at home and at her job.

2005-01-13T03:00:00Z

1x12 Parsons/Bramhall

1x12 Parsons/Bramhall

  • 2005-01-13T03:00:00Z45m

An educated and organized mother trades families with a waitress who struggles to control her three wayward daughters.

2005-01-20T03:00:00Z

1x13 Fontaine/Herman

1x13 Fontaine/Herman

  • 2005-01-20T03:00:00Z45m

A coupon-cutting, bargain-hunter, stay-at-home, mother from Ohio trades lives with a high-powered executive from Maryland who despises coupons, clutter and children ruling the house.

2005-02-10T03:00:00Z

1x14 Boone Luffey/Gillespie

1x14 Boone Luffey/Gillespie

  • 2005-02-10T03:00:00Z45m

One-half of a lesbian couple is switched with a conservative, God-fearing homemaker from Texas.

2005-02-17T03:00:00Z

1x15 Pyke/Smith

1x15 Pyke/Smith

  • 2005-02-17T03:00:00Z45m

Stay-at-home mom Michelle Pyke swaps life at the family owned funeral home for life on the road in the Smith family's converted Greyhound bus.

2005-02-24T03:00:00Z

1x16 Flummerfelt/Bray

1x16 Flummerfelt/Bray

  • 2005-02-24T03:00:00Z45m

An assertive, domineering wife of an inter-racial couple swaps lives with a subservient, stay-at-home wife from a very different minded inter-racial couple.

2005-03-03T03:00:00Z

1x17 Patrick/Leierwood

1x17 Patrick/Leierwood

  • 2005-03-03T03:00:00Z45m

A very conservative, former military mom with strong pro-war views swaps lives with a liberal, pacifist art teacher and anti-war protester.

2005-03-17T03:00:00Z

1x18 Cedarquist/Oeth

1x18 Cedarquist/Oeth

  • 2005-03-17T03:00:00Z45m

A home-schooling, stay-at-home mom who lives in a tree house swaps places with a Type A, Harvard educated mom who works full-time for a finance company.

2005-06-02T02:00:00Z

1x19 Hodge/Kolpin

1x19 Hodge/Kolpin

  • 2005-06-02T02:00:00Z45m

An animal rights activist mother who eats only raw food and has a vegan cat that doesn't eat meat swaps lives with a back-country mom whose motto is ""Kill it and grill it"".

2005-03-08T03:00:00Z

1x20 Boss Swap: Silver/Caden

1x20 Boss Swap: Silver/Caden

  • 2005-03-08T03:00:00Z45m

A supportive, laid back CEO of an all women promotional firm swaps roles with a chauvinistic, tough-talking boss from an all-male car dealership who refuses to hire women for sales positions.

1x21 Vacation Swap: Hawn/Orlando

  • 2005-03-24T03:00:00Z45m

A millionaire family accustomed to living a life of luxury leaves the butler behind when they go on vacation with a blue-collar family whose favorite vacation spot is a low-budget RV trailer park next to a dairy farm.

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